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Real Ale pubs by county

Pubs Galore currently has 48185 open pubs listed in the UK of which 31845 (66.1%) have been tagged by our members as serving real ale. The following table shows the break down for each county:-

#	County	Open Pubs	Real Ale pubs	% real ale	Fizz only	% fizz	Unknown	% unknown
1	Alderney	9	5	55.6	4	44.4	0	0
2	Antrim	341	15	4.4	325	95.3	1	0.3
3	Armagh	71	0	0	71	100	0	0
4	Bedfordshire	332	277	83.4	55	16.6	0	0
5	Berkshire	538	445	82.7	91	16.9	2	0.4
6	Borders	110	55	50	53	48.2	2	1.8
7	Bristol (County)	704	517	73.4	185	26.3	2	0.3
8	Buckinghamshire	449	377	84	71	15.8	1	0.2
9	Cambridgeshire	564	482	85.5	74	13.1	8	1.4
10	Central	228	67	29.4	161	70.6	0	0
11	Cheshire	916	664	72.5	235	25.7	17	1.9
12	Clwyd	410	250	61	160	39	0	0
13	Cornwall	635	526	82.8	96	15.1	13	2
14	County Durham	638	369	57.8	258	40.4	11	1.7
15	Cumbria	738	524	71	202	27.4	12	1.6
16	Derbyshire	980	813	83	148	15.1	19	1.9
17	Devon	1137	972	85.5	134	11.8	31	2.7
18	Dorset	599	503	84	86	14.4	10	1.7
19	Down	200	7	3.5	193	96.5	0	0
20	Dumfries and Galloway	183	54	29.5	129	70.5	0	0
21	Dyfed	516	405	78.5	110	21.3	1	0.2
22	East Riding of Yorkshire	497	336	67.6	161	32.4	0	0
23	East Sussex	738	549	74.4	165	22.4	24	3.3
24	Essex	973	786	80.8	176	18.1	11	1.1
25	Fermanagh	54	2	3.7	52	96.3	0	0
26	Fife	269	69	25.7	189	70.3	11	4.1
27	Gloucestershire	560	472	84.3	78	13.9	10	1.8
28	Grampian	397	115	29	266	67	16	4
29	Guernsey	71	39	54.9	32	45.1	0	0
30	Gwent	373	228	61.1	135	36.2	10	2.7
31	Gwynedd	356	246	69.1	101	28.4	9	2.5
32	Hampshire	1117	933	83.5	167	15	17	1.5
33	Herefordshire	207	186	89.9	21	10.1	0	0
34	Herm	2	1	50	1	50	0	0
35	Hertfordshire	711	591	83.1	107	15	13	1.8
36	Highland	342	151	44.2	178	52	13	3.8
37	Isle of Man	93	77	82.8	16	17.2	0	0
38	Isle Of Wight	153	124	81	29	19	0	0
39	Jersey	114	51	44.7	63	55.3	0	0
40	Kent	1397	1063	76.1	258	18.5	76	5.4
41	Lancashire	1354	885	65.4	408	30.1	61	4.5
42	Leicestershire	616	472	76.6	117	19	27	4.4
43	Lincolnshire	795	576	72.5	198	24.9	21	2.6
44	London (Central)	2030	965	47.5	977	48.1	88	4.3
45	London (Greater)	2252	1280	56.8	875	38.9	97	4.3
46	Londonderry	150	3	2	142	94.7	5	3.3
47	Lothian	699	288	41.2	391	55.9	20	2.9
48	Manchester (Greater)	2055	1208	58.8	833	40.5	14	0.7
49	Merseyside	1145	468	40.9	642	56.1	35	3.1
50	Mid Glamorgan	352	221	62.8	125	35.5	6	1.7
51	Norfolk	719	606	84.3	105	14.6	8	1.1
52	North Yorkshire	1326	1033	77.9	274	20.7	19	1.4
53	Northamptonshire	378	311	82.3	63	16.7	4	1.1
54	Northumberland	311	216	69.5	86	27.7	9	2.9
55	Nottinghamshire	829	618	74.5	184	22.2	27	3.3
56	Orkney	36	20	55.6	15	41.7	1	2.8
57	Oxfordshire	633	534	84.4	94	14.8	5	0.8
58	Powys	220	185	84.1	35	15.9	0	0
59	Rutland	42	39	92.9	3	7.1	0	0
60	Sark	4	3	75	1	25	0	0
61	Shetland Islands	25	5	20	20	80	0	0
62	Shropshire	537	469	87.3	68	12.7	0	0
63	Somerset	802	640	79.8	159	19.8	3	0.4
64	South Glamorgan	326	216	66.3	67	20.6	43	13.2
65	South Yorkshire	1048	631	60.2	374	35.7	43	4.1
66	Staffordshire	871	726	83.4	125	14.4	20	2.3
67	Strathclyde	1572	251	16	1275	81.1	46	2.9
68	Suffolk	599	495	82.6	94	15.7	10	1.7
69	Surrey	623	550	88.3	69	11.1	4	0.6
70	Tayside	387	96	24.8	282	72.9	9	2.3
71	Tyne & Wear	832	419	50.4	368	44.2	45	5.4
72	Tyrone	116	1	0.9	115	99.1	0	0
73	Warwickshire	474	384	81	73	15.4	17	3.6
74	West Glamorgan	301	150	49.8	151	50.2	0	0
75	West Midlands	1541	936	60.7	544	35.3	61	4
76	West Sussex	540	463	85.7	69	12.8	8	1.5
77	West Yorkshire	1809	1203	66.5	544	30.1	62	3.4
78	Western Isles	30	9	30	21	70	0	0
79	Wiltshire	547	480	87.8	57	10.4	10	1.8
80	Worcestershire	537	444	82.7	78	14.5	15	2.8